Anyone see what happened to Berkman?

Aggravated his calf injury; listed as day to day.

I'd expect a DL stint, personally. Carpenter's presently hitting well and we can afford to lose Berkman for a bit to ensure he's completely healthy.

On a side note, Tyler Greene sucks at absolutely everything.

DJ, what can you tell me about Wong? I know you mentioned him the other night on here.



Yeah probably DL for Berkman. Might as well for now.

Well, just busted that one open.



Good atbat from Jaime.

Jaime fouled off what 6 pitches there? Nice work helping his own cause.

Wong reminds me a little of Jose Vidro. Gets the 'pro's pro' label quite a bit. Sound, compact, level swing with good gap power. Looks like he should be a plus defender (good range, not elite; same with his arm - makes up for it with quick hands).

At his best he should be a guy that gets talked about as a GG contender, but probably won't win one. Maybe a .310-.320 with 15 HRs and maybe 20 stolen bases.

Think of him as being a slightly more consistent version of Jon Jay as a hitter with a Tommy Herr style glove. Or hell, just call him Tommy Herr with more power.

He should be a fast riser; I'd expect him to man the pivot by the end of the 2014 season at the latest; perhaps even by mid 2013 if Descalso's bat doesn't come around and Wong hits his way into the picture in AAA.

That sounds good.


We need to do something up the middle. Furcal ain't getting any younger, and while I like Descalso, I think he's ultimately a utility guy.

On a positive note, **** this team can hit.

This years team is head and shoulders better than it was a year ago at this time. The intire lineup can hit, the bullpen is an actual strength and the starting pitching has been very good.


Waino gets the ball tomorrow and will shut down the reds again and then the Pirates and cubs. This team could have a 7 - 10 game lead in the NL Central in another week.

Milwaukee isn't going anywhere.

In case you missed it, Prince steals second a comedy:
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Another win.


Lynn threw the ball well. Again.


Although some tough news, Berkmann had to go onto the DL. Hopefully its just a 15 dayer.


We need Craig to get healthy soon.

Hard to believe that Wainwright has been tagged with three of our four losses. I'm sure he'll come around, though.

It would also be nice if he could get a little run support.

Its a process.

Small sample size but his peripherals look fine, either way you have to assume that that HR rate is unsustainable because its not like he's Ryan Franklin throwing BP fastballs to these guys.

The facts are most pitchers take 19 months to get back to normal. He still has 6 months to go.

OMFG Holliday just go away please.

You need to ease up on Holliday. He's not going anywhere. We are wed together, for better or worse.

Holliday is what he is, he will end up hitting a non-clutch .300/20/102.

He's A-Rod lite, minus the douche personality.

I still dont get the Holliday hate.

i get it.
i personally don't have it.
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Has to do with his lack of clutch gene (been watching too much ESPN) and the fact they signed him instead of Albert. The reality is he's not that bad, and the Cardinals signed him to show Albert they were committed to building a good club.

Beltran hit in to a double play with the bases loaded he is so not clutch get rid of him

I might be open to the argument that certain people do respond negatively to pressure (e.g. Roberto Luongo would probably make a great case study in this) but the belief that certain players are "good in the clutch" is just silly to me because it requires the belief that they need stress to be at their best essentially.

before i go back to my Holliday sarcasm I would like to point out how great Furcal has been

We should trade Beltran before he kills any value he has, so not clutch

Freese with a base hit, scores two.


Really hope he can stay healthy for the long haul.

He's pulling a Berk from last year, hit like ass in ST and then come out on fire.

Heh, K-Mac actually gets through a frame clean.

Where is Kyle Lohse and what have you done with him?...er actually we'll take the new one. Never mind.

He's playing for a new contract. Imagine if he had pitched well in the postseason, he'd be the most sought after pitcher on the market.

While he is pitching for a new contract, he was pretty damn good the second half of last year too. No one noticed because they still hated him from when he was playing through injury the year before.

Yes, and his lackluster postseason. He's overall been good, though.

Albert 0 homers...

LMAO Angels fans are anxious. Some are already hating the move. Most of them seem to be putting his lack of HR's off as a slump, but they generally seem to be very worried that his career is starting to decline. I'm loving it. I hope he continues to systematically decline throughout the remainder of the next 10 years. Isn't he close to his prior longest HR drought?

I hope he stays healthy as a horse throughout his career...and falls off the !@#$ing map.

It's not going to happen, but a nice run of .285 seasons with 20-25 HRs and an .820 OPS would be pretty damn sweet.

He's not going to forget how to hit just because he's in LA. We may have gotten his best years but Pujols will still bring it.

In case you didn't know, the way they structured the contract, Pujols is making less this year than he did last year with the Cardinals.

IMO, Pujols shot his wad in the multi homer game in the WS. He's done.

Thats a BS loss. Those cubs suck. they have no business winning that ball game. I think they took it for granted that they didn't have to being their "A" games to win.

I like Motte but damn he has got to learn a different pitch besides that fastball.

Well, I will enjoy any slump this guy goes on from hear on out.

I actually didn't know that (about his contract).


Ever since that Mets game at the end of last season, when Motte approaches the mound, I immediately become anxious.

Motte got in trouble because he walked two batters. He does have a slider he throws occassionally.

He got lots of outs in the playoffs with that slider. He just had an off day.

Holliday!

About time. :thumb:

Man, that Matt Holliday is so clutch. LMAO

Lifelong Cubs fans are denouncing them as their favorite team on my facebook news feed. LMAO One of them just proclaimed himself as a "new Washington Nationals" fan.

:doh!:

no matter how it turns out. The most important part about tonight was that Waino is starting to look like himself.

Did Wainwright **** somebody's wife or something? God I'm sick of them crapping all over his starts.

WOW 2 really bad calls by the umps tonight.

REALLY BAD calls.

Damn Greene WTF

Yeah, we got hosed, but frankly if you can't score more than two runs against the goddamn Cubs you deserve to lose.

I agree. They really have been playing down to the competition this series.

I'm so ****ing pissed at that blown callin the 10th. Matheny should have ripped that umps heart from his chest.

The umps suck.

Tyler Greene sucks worse. He may be the least reliable infielder I've ever seen, up to and including Ryan Theriot. And if it's an important AB you can bet your ass he's going to strike out hacking.

He serves absolutely no purpose on this roster.

I did get a good laugh at Garza and Samardzija celebrating Matheny getting tossed though. It was the kind of class you can expect from Cubs.

They gotta get their laughs in somewhere, not gonna be a lot of smiles if they don't get moved and the Cubs are staring down 90 losses.

Yep I hope they lose 100 this year.

On a positive note, Waino looked good and Holliday came through in a clutch situation.

Yeah, what's the deal with Waino still not getting a single run in run support? Should even out just like there's no way that HR rate he had in his first couple starts was sustainable but annoying nonetheless.

At least Theriot puts the bat on the ball. The Birds just need to admit the Tyler Greene experiment was a failure and move on.

Local News was making fun of the Cubs for celebrating like they just won the World Series ROFL

Meh.

I didn't get to watch the game, too much shit recording, but I saw a clip of the home plate call.

It was a bad call, but Yadier never tagged him either. DeJesus knew he didn't touch the plate and while Yadier was flipping out DeJesus touched the plate, so...

Runners on 2nd and 3rd, two outs, Holliday..... grounds out to the pitcher.

Holliday being Holliday. I'm starting to hate this **** the way I hated Elway.

FREESEN!!!

Finally, some runs.

Wrapped around another Holliday out, of course.

Lynn's a little off today, too. Thank God he's opposite Volstad.

I was kicking around the idea of going to this game, but I was out sick on Monday so I didn't. Crappy weather today as well. Although I would have enjoyed booing Holliday.

Freese delivers again! Lead now 5-1 in the bottom of the 8th.

A couple of quick observations:

1)K-Mac seems to have come around.

2) Why oh why throw anything but a breaking ball to Soriano or LaHair?

Did you get a Freese or Yadi jersey?

I was thinking of going to the game today in St. Pete and take a sign to give shit to Pujols. But, I decided I didn't care that much to spend $20 and 4 hours of my life to do that.

Neither. In the end, it was just too much money.

Sadly, I'm still sporting my 2006 Scott Rolen WS jersey.

How much was it?

Over $300. Silly for somebody my age to spend that much on a friggin jersey.

Fun game tonight - pisspounding the Brewers 7-1 in the 3rd. Already chased their starter.

Can we just play against Gallardo all the time? So far in his head they might as well have a condo there.

LMAO

Hell, Holliday got two hits in ONE INNING. He normally doesn't get two hits in a week.

Hope they saved some offense for the rest of the weekend.